Fat-Free and Fabulous: Ornaments to Remember offers colorful artisan-crafted glass-blown ornaments in just about any design you can imagine, including gourmet foods such as petit fours, truffles, fancy cheeses, wine, sushi and berries straight from the farmer’s market. They’re perfect for decorating your Christmas tree, but you really don’t need a holiday to display them. The best part? They’re totally guilt-free and last way longer than a decadent truffle. Better yet, all of Ornaments to Remember’s profits go to The Learning Community.
Ornaments start at $17. Visit  www.ornaments2remember.com and www.thelearningcommunity.us for more.

Game On!: With the popularity of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” the Food Network in general and widely available specialty grocery stores, chef speak is beginning to roll off of our enlightened tongues these days. But SmartsCo challenged our supposed high food IQs with this set of GourmetSmarts Q&A cards, featuring such topics as lingo, ingredients and cuisines. So channel your inner Tom Colicchio and announce to the world you know chiffonade IS NOT a fine paring knife – duh! $16. 95, www.smartsco.com . Honorable mention: Foodie Fight, $18.99, www.chroniclebooks.com. 

What a Pair: Peanuts, crackerjacks and … fine wine? Charity Wines thinks wine and sports make a perfect pairing, especially when a charity benefits from this unique alliance. Wine importer Charity Wines teams with an athlete or celebrity, who chooses a charitable organization to which they are particularly close. Then, Charity Wines sources the perfect wine to match the celebrity and charity. Now that’s a home run of a mission.Wines start at $13.99, www.charitywines.com. 

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